Perhaps there is a point to be made that while Intel's manufacturing process is clearly superior to AMDs, given that using the same process, AMD's chips outperform, it might be reasonable to suggest that AMDs architecture is better. I don't know that it is, I just consider it a possibility, given the comparison.
They should have watched this video.
Perhaps they waived their right to not be searched. Still, having a video camera on one's own property considered as wiretapping?!?!
What kind of nonsense is that?
Heh, the motto on NH license plates used to be "Live Free or Die" (maybe it still is, I don't know). Now, I guess they just want you to die since the former is apparently not an option!
". . . under a capitalist system, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
As parent said, the poor don't get poorer. What they may do is not get richer as fast as the rich do.
It follows that envy is the sole impetus behind the AC's statement. "It doesn't matter what I have. What matters is that someone else has a lot more!!"
Mechanical or electronic? An abacus?
It gets fuzzy because there is surely a hard-to-define border between what is a computer and what is not.
Is my desk calculator (non-programmable) a computer? No? How about my HP-41C calculator? My microwave oven?
I've got a PowerMac at home still running that's not much faster than your 486/33. I just remembered I upgraded the CPU on that so it's about 300MHz. I had a Mac Centris 650 68040/25MHz but I gave it away. It had 8MB RAM and a 230MB HD. I paid about $3000 for it in 1993, and now it's worth about $10 - maybe.
I'm sure there are people out there still playing around with Altairs and homebrew computers from the 1970s.
Maybe the one the IRS uses to print refund checks!
Obviously, the human brain has components below/outside the cerebral cortex and beyond its control that affect/determine (to some extent) our behavior.
They say that true integrity means doing what's right even when no one is looking [or could find out], but everyone falls short at sometime or another.
My understanding of the history is that refrigeration (used for air conditioning not for food storage, initially) was driven by the (misguided) need to provide cool, dry air to malaria victims in the Southern US to restore their health. It was thought that malaria (Italian for "bad air") was caused by humid, stagnant air (conditions that happen to coincide with mosquito habitats).
RIM is also using the Intel Xscale chips in the Blackberry.
From TFA on red-electronics.com, Intel will keep making the chips for Marvell until Marvell finds another manufacturing solution - probably TSMC or the like, my guess is.
Well then, I , for one, welcome our new sun-blocking overlords.
Block it over Arizona and the Sahara desert if you must, but could you please leave it alone in the Pacific NW - we don't get enough sunshine as it is and we still buy more sunglasses than the rest of the country!
. . . almost every major technological innovation is motivated by the government's responsibility to protect the public.
. . . that's certainly why we have those things as well as air bags, H-bombs, seat belt and helmet laws - maybe even TANG® and Velcro® (OK, not really) but what about the printing press, the airplane, radio, refrigeration, and Cheez Wiz? Seriously, you're just looking at the last thirty years, and a limited part of that. The government is not to be credited with all good in the world.
BTW, refrigeration has saved way more lives than GPS.
I'm not sure they'd would have. Presidents doesn't have to worry too much about forking over $500 for software, and they doesn't have time to mess with it anyways. They'd would of had they're staff make sure the computers they use were ready to go.
One feature I've found lacking in Calc is the Pivot Table and Pivot Chart functions. OK, they're not completely missing, they're just not as powerful or as easy to use. I really like that feature in Excel.
Someone perhaps a bit older (or just a bit better informed - I was 3 yrs old at the time) might remember something else that sets Kent State apart:
The Kent State shootings, also known as May 4 or the Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The shooting killed four students and wounded nine others.
The shootings were the culmination of four days of increasingly agitated demonstrations by members of the student body. The students were protesting the American invasion of Cambodia which President Richard Nixon launched on April 25, and announced in a television address five days later.
There were significant national consequences to the shootings; hundreds of universities, colleges, high schools, and even elementary schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of eight million students, and the event further divided the country along political lines.
Here's my little meta-comment: Isn't it interesting how one person can say something and get moderated +5, Insightful, and then and someone else can come along, flatly contradict the first, and also be modded +5, Insightful.
Not saying that it shouldn't be that way, just that it's interesting. Noticed similar situations on the hurricane machine post as well.
Also interesting to me is that a totally non-technical story would garner so many comments on Slashdot.
That's my $0.02.
Oh, shoot. It could have been $37,000,000,000.02 instead of $37,000,000,000.00 if I had spent my time contributing to charity instead of wasting it on Slashdot!
I've used it since 0.41 and have been using the development pre-0.44 releases, no problem, WinXP on a ThinkPad. Even 0.43 is pretty cool. 0.44 adds some more functionality. Try it. You'll like it.
It looks like the guy who reported it is Bulia Byak, one of the main developers.
It's one of the top downloads on sourceforge.net.
Did you catch that real disingenuous bit: ". . . allowing the ISP's to continue to invest in this nation's internet and telecom infrastructure. .." as if someone were stopping them from doing so!
My thought exactly.
Cell phones have very little metal in them really (and none on the exterior of most phones) and the only reason they could possibly have for singling out cell phones is the attention-grabbing "here's more proof that cell-phones are bad" storyline.
I have a stainless steel coffee cup that'd be much worse than cell phone - and what about IPODS??!?!
Metal wires going into both ears - plus you might not hear the thunder! Heavens, alert the CPSC!!!
2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the top 100 films of all time, has the following lines:
HAL cannot self-diagnostically detect errors in his own system. The machine refuses to admit the evidence of his own capacity for error. In an unperturbed tone, HAL defends himself to the two astronauts and faults the humans instead for "human error":
HAL: I hope the two of you are not concerned about this.
Dave: No, I'm not HAL.
HAL: Are you quite sure?
Dave: Yeah. I'd like to ask you a question, though.
HAL: Of course.
Dave: How would you account for this discrepancy between you and the twin 9000?
HAL: Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
Frank: Listen HAL. There has never been any instance at all of a computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has there?
HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.
Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are you certain there has never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error?
HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.
Dave: Well, I'm sure you're right, HAL. Uhm, fine, thanks very much.
Umm, I think the parent was making a funny.
Ever see a flick called 2001: A Space Odyssey? Guy in the movie by the name of HAL9000 said something similar.
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Perhaps there is a point to be made that while Intel's manufacturing process is clearly superior to AMDs, given that using the same process, AMD's chips outperform, it might be reasonable to suggest that AMDs architecture is better.
I don't know that it is, I just consider it a possibility, given the comparison.
They should have watched this video.
Perhaps they waived their right to not be searched. Still, having a video camera on one's own property considered as wiretapping?!?!
What kind of nonsense is that?
Heh, the motto on NH license plates used to be "Live Free or Die" (maybe it still is, I don't know). Now, I guess they just want you to die since the former is apparently not an option!
Slashback tonight brings some clarifications and updates to previous Slashdot stories. . .
/. had got some facts wrong and were having to publish corrections or something!
Phew. That's a relief! For a second I thought maybe
Absolutely right.
". . . under a capitalist system, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
As parent said, the poor don't get poorer. What they may do is not get richer as fast as the rich do.
It follows that envy is the sole impetus behind the AC's statement. "It doesn't matter what I have. What matters is that someone else has a lot more!!"
. . .the slowest computer still in use.
Mechanical or electronic?
An abacus? It gets fuzzy because there is surely a hard-to-define border between what is a computer and what is not.
Is my desk calculator (non-programmable) a computer? No? How about my HP-41C calculator? My microwave oven?
I've got a PowerMac at home still running that's not much faster than your 486/33. I just remembered I upgraded the CPU on that so it's about 300MHz. I had a Mac Centris 650 68040/25MHz but I gave it away.
It had 8MB RAM and a 230MB HD. I paid about $3000 for it in 1993, and now it's worth about $10 - maybe.
I'm sure there are people out there still playing around with Altairs and homebrew computers from the 1970s.
Maybe the one the IRS uses to print refund checks!
True, but maybe they were telling us about its acceleration (like zero-to-60 in 5 seconds).
It can go from zero to 2.8 TFlops in 0.01 seconds?
Note: I'm joking, of course.
Obviously, the human brain has components below/outside the cerebral cortex and beyond its control that affect/determine (to some extent) our behavior.
They say that true integrity means doing what's right even when no one is looking [or could find out], but everyone falls short at sometime or another.
My understanding of the history is that refrigeration (used for air conditioning not for food storage, initially) was driven by the (misguided) need to provide cool, dry air to malaria victims in the Southern US to restore their health. It was thought that malaria (Italian for "bad air") was caused by humid, stagnant air (conditions that happen to coincide with mosquito habitats).
RIM is also using the Intel Xscale chips in the Blackberry.
From TFA on red-electronics.com, Intel will keep making the chips for Marvell until Marvell finds another manufacturing solution - probably TSMC or the like, my guess is.
Well then, I , for one, welcome our new sun-blocking overlords.
Block it over Arizona and the Sahara desert if you must, but could you please leave it alone in the Pacific NW - we don't get enough sunshine as it is and we still buy more sunglasses than the rest of the country!
. . . almost every major technological innovation is motivated by the government's responsibility to protect the public.
. . . that's certainly why we have those things as well as air bags, H-bombs, seat belt and helmet laws - maybe even TANG® and Velcro® (OK, not really) but what about the printing press, the airplane, radio, refrigeration, and Cheez Wiz?
Seriously, you're just looking at the last thirty years, and a limited part of that. The government is not to be credited with all good in the world. BTW, refrigeration has saved way more lives than GPS.
Interesting idea. Maybe they made the ad intentionally as bad as they could in order to attract someone to come design a really good one, for free.
I'm not sure they'd would have. Presidents doesn't have to worry too much about forking over $500 for software, and they doesn't have time to mess with it anyways. They'd would of had they're staff make sure the computers they use were ready to go.
One feature I've found lacking in Calc is the Pivot Table and Pivot Chart functions. OK, they're not completely missing, they're just not as powerful or as easy to use. I really like that feature in Excel.
Here's my little meta-comment: Isn't it interesting how one person can say something and get moderated +5, Insightful, and then and someone else can come along, flatly contradict the first, and also be modded +5, Insightful.
Not saying that it shouldn't be that way, just that it's interesting. Noticed similar situations on the hurricane machine post as well.
Also interesting to me is that a totally non-technical story would garner so many comments on Slashdot.
That's my $0.02.
Oh, shoot. It could have been $37,000,000,000.02 instead of $37,000,000,000.00 if I had spent my time contributing to charity instead of wasting it on Slashdot!
I've used it since 0.41 and have been using the development pre-0.44 releases, no problem, WinXP on a ThinkPad. Even 0.43 is pretty cool. 0.44 adds some more functionality. Try it. You'll like it. It looks like the guy who reported it is Bulia Byak, one of the main developers. It's one of the top downloads on sourceforge.net.
Did you catch that real disingenuous bit: ". . . allowing the ISP's to continue to invest in this nation's internet and telecom infrastructure. . ." as if someone were stopping them from doing so!
You must be new here. /. readers like myself always read the featured article (RTFA) before making clever or other comments.
Seasoned
In any case, I agree with everyone who says Craig made the better argument, regardless of their reasoning.
Good info, but "If its a GSM phone,. . ." is a BIG "if". If 2bepissedoff is in the US, chances are that it's not a GSM phone, but TDMA or CDMA.
Oh, never mind, T-Mobile uses GSM only, so it definitely is a GSM phone.
I am so behind the times.
My thought exactly.
Cell phones have very little metal in them really (and none on the exterior of most phones) and the only reason they could possibly have for singling out cell phones is the attention-grabbing "here's more proof that cell-phones are bad" storyline.
I have a stainless steel coffee cup that'd be much worse than cell phone - and what about IPODS??!?!
Metal wires going into both ears - plus you might not hear the thunder! Heavens, alert the CPSC!!!
Neither does iTunes.
Think of it as non-Microsoft rather than F/OSS and put duct tape around your head to keep it from exploding and you'll be fine.
Please mod parent up - it's a joke. And you should have your geek license revoked if you don't get it ;-)
Umm, I think the parent was making a funny.
Ever see a flick called 2001: A Space Odyssey? Guy in the movie by the name of HAL9000 said something similar.